PERSONAL
1. How old are you?
23
2. Where are you from?
Guildford, well Woking to be precise.
3. Do you think your location has affected your success in Drum & Bass?
Erm..well my location now is Newcastle Upon Tyne, but i'm here cos its cheap and i can get by doing shitty jobs that i can leave if something comes up, so even if i was somewhere with more DnB i probably wouldn't have as much time to give to music..swings and roundabouts i reckon.
4. What is your first name?
Dave
5. Where did the name Temper D come from?
I use to have a bit of a temper when i was a teenager, and D is for Dave i guess..Bit shit that isn't it! hehe.
6. How long have you been producing Drum & Bass?
I started working with Exile about 2 years ago, but I don't have the technical ability to write tunes on my own so its always a partnership..K-Fire and I have been doing stuff in the studio together for just over a year now.
7. Do you DJ, and how long have you been mixing for?
Yeah DJ'ings my main thing, i love it more than anything...about 5 years now.
8. What are your Drum & Bass influences?
For sheer quality of production i don't think Ram have ever released a bad record, so the Trilogy and Moving Fusion have always been favourites..Everything before No Reality was wicked as well..they just seem to have the concept of using as few sounds as possible but to maximum impact locked down..I'd love to be able to make stuff that good one day. The other obvious one is Bad Company, and Fresh on his own, but recently I've been loving stuff coming from D-Kay, MIST, Militia, Sketch and Code, Concord Dawn, Pendulum, Counterstrike...loads of people to be honest.
9. Do you have any other musical interests?
I like all sorts of music but the other genre that really moves me is techno..sometimes i've gone out raving to Richie Hawtin or Jeff Mills and just come back thinking "there's no other form of music capable of that kind of effect on people"...its so primal what a basic progression of sounds can do to you..I think DnB still has a lot to learn from Techno..there still hasn't been many tunes which really take whats amazing about progressiveness and applied it to DnB..people seem to think that if there's no real choppy breaks and you have a basic 2 step that its techno influenced but i think you have to understand another genre to really apply its principles...Sorry, rant over!
10. How did you become involved in the Drum & Bass scene?
I used to borrow a friend of mine's old rave tapes when i was at school, all sorts of stuff...Old Fusion tapes of LTJ bukem, Hardcore tapes from Dreamscape and stuff...then someone left the Platinum Breakz album at my house and its all i listened to for about a month..I was blown away and did everything i could to find out more about that type of music. Then in about 97 some of us went down to Movement at Bar Rumba to see Grooverider..and that was it basically!
11. What did you do before Drum & Bass?
Went to school and played a lot of sport!
12. What is the Drum & Bass scene like in your area?
Its ok, there's one monthly night called Turbulence run by the residents Phobia and Piper which is good...apart from that we run a weekly bar night which is cool, and once every term (Newcastle's a very student populated city) we run a fairly big event called Curves and try and get up a headliner..last one was Twisted Individual and Zen, and the next one is Dylan and Tech Itch..shit thats gonna be dark!
13. 2003 looks to be a good year for Drum & Bass, where do you see it heading?
Its heading all over the shop really, i don't think its future is in any doubt at all, its looking really strong. Musically there seems to be alot of people disillusioned with the new jump up sound we're hearing a lot of..but I like it as much as any style, same as everything really, just in moderation!..Personally I'd like to see a more varied DJ line-up at some of the bigger raves. There's a few nights pushing more leftfield styles but it'd be nice to see some of that leftfield stuff make it onto more line-ups and not just be a sideline...I'm still much more a Renegade Hardware than Inperspective man buit it would be good to mix it up a bit i think..
14. How did you hook up with K-Fire?
Tim's been a good mate of mine for ages...we play in the same band called Keiretsu, 10 piece live DnB and breakbeat, formed while we were all mates at Uni...He sent me a cd of his first tune last summer and we agreed to get in the studio together and see if we could brush it up to release standard...It didn't quite get there that time but we worked on a few more and eventually came out with a sound we're happy with.
15. Do you have a web site?
Our whole crew has a website that covers everything we do, the band, Steve's Psytrance, Rich's (Isotone) DnB, Jon's Breaks, and the stuff K-Fire and i do..its a pretty varied group we've got on the go!
www.dartrecordings.co.uk
16. What are your favourite Drum & Bass web sites?
DnBScene, Dogsonacid, Gain recordings, and of course DNBforum!
17. What are your favourite non-Drum & Bass web sites?
Erm....hotmail.
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